Zircon — specimen 0145, photo © NMNHS

Zircon — specimen 0145

Origin

Southeast Asia

Cambodia

Data

Weight: 0.78 ct; size: 5.98 | 3.91 | 2.66 mm; shape: octagon; colour: medium light green-blue or blue-green; very slightly greyish; clarity: eye clean; cut: good; treatment: heating.

Notes

Very clean specimen; step cut style.

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More information from ‘Classification’

Zircon

An accessory mineral in igneous and metamorphic rocks, with crystals reaching large size in mafic pegmatites and carbonatites; in sedimentary rocks and alluvial sands (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).